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Eugene W. Anderson Named New Dean of University of Miami School of Business
Posted May 19, 2011
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Eugene W. Anderson
CORAL GABLES, Fla. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Marketing specialist Eugene "Gene" W. Anderson, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Marketing at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, has been named Dean of the University of Miami School of Business Administration today. He will assume his role at the University on August 1, bringing with him a wealth of academic and administrative experience spanning over 20 years at Michigan. Frances Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa will continue to serve as interim dean until his arrival.
"Through his scholarship, teaching, and administrative experience, Gene Anderson leads by example," said UM Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc. "His interdisciplinary, institutional, corporate, and global outreach experiences at the Ross School are the ideal preparation for the next leader of our School of Business Administration, as we continue to create closer ties among our schools and colleges, with the Miami business community, and with the global business community."
In addition to his academic leadership, Anderson has served key administrative roles at the Ross School of Business, including founding Academic Director for the Executive MBA Program in 2000, where he led the design, development and launch of the School's first Executive MBA program. As Associate Dean for Degree Programs, Anderson successfully led the revision of the core curriculum of the full-time MBA program, working with faculty across all areas of the school to create and implement a more effective design for the first year. He also led the globalization of the School's flagship field project course. In 2009, he was tasked as the school's first Academic Director for Action-Based Learning, where he has partnered with over 100 corporations, startups, and NGO's with an emphasis on projects focused on growth, innovation, sustainability and social enterprise.
Anderson has extensively worked with various units across the University to enhance the students' college experience. His approach was evident when he was given responsibility for the Non-Profit Management Center, a joint venture between the Ross School, the School of Social Work and the Ford School of Public Policy. In addition to working with the Center to hire a new Director and develop a new programmatic strategy, he also initiated new activities that would bring together students from the three schools to work with nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. He also oversees the school's 24 dual-degree or joint-degree options with other units. He was part of the team that created three new degree programs - MBA/MS of Higher Education, MBA/MM of Music, and MBA/MPH of Public Health. Anderson also led the creation of a Student Initiated Dual Degree program allowing MBA students to create their own dual degree. In Summer 2010, he piloted a cross-disciplinary field project course for teams of business, arts and sciences, and engineering students. Most recently, he facilitated the development of a new Master's of Entrepreneurship degree, a joint venture between the Ross School and Michigan's College of Engineering.
"Today's students are looking beyond traditional careers, and Gene Anderson is an expert in applying business education principles to connect the dots between disciplines and industries," said UM President Donna E. Shalala. "He will be able to quickly build on the School of Business' strengths and global profile and, working with our excellent faculty, take it to the next level."
Anderson received a doctorate degree from the University of Chicago, and his master's and bachelor's degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in Business Administration.
"I'm deeply honored to be named the next dean of the School of Business Administration. It's exciting to be joining a school with such remarkable talent in its student body, staff, and faculty," said Anderson. "The School is widely recognized as one that is going places and I really look forward to continuing that great momentum. I believe the opportunities for the School going forward are tremendous. It is well positioned to become the business school best integrated with its home university, best engaged with business and society, and best connected with international business -- especially the fast-growing markets of Latin America."
His academic research on customer satisfaction has been published extensively in marketing academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Management Science and the Journal of Consumer Research, among others. He has served as an Area Editor at both the Journal of Consumer Research and Marketing Science. He won the Marketing Science Institute/Journal of Marketing Competition on "Linking Marketing to Financial Performance," and was awarded the FedEx Excellence in Service Research Award, the Andy Andrews Distinguished Service Award, and the Victor L. Bernard Faculty Teaching Leadership Award.
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